trouble with .wav sound effects

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I'm having trouble playing .wav sound effects in PRE 10. The .wav clips were downloaded from Microsoft and play OK on Windows Media Player. I can import them into PRE 10, but there is no audio. (My movies clips have audio, so the sound on the system is turned on - first thing I checked). I'm using Windows 7.

[Steve Grisetti]

Try opening one of them in Audacity (a free download) and then export it as a new WAV file.

These files may be at a sampling rate Premiere Elements can't work with. Audacity will create a 44.1k file of it.

Or you can post a link to them so one of us could download and analyze it.

[Chuck Engels]

Or you can use Audacity to convert them to MP3, that would work also.

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You guys have done it again! Works just fine....thanks.

[Chuck Engels]

[Peru]

Or you can use Audacity to convert them to MP3, that would work also.

I've had problems with mp3s in P Pro and Pre El. I always convert to wav.

[Chuck Engels]

I have never had a problem with an MP3 from Audacity.

[Steve Grisetti]

MP3s will work -- but they can make your timeline play back sluggishly (unless you've got a super-fast computer like Chuck!). I recommend using WAVs whenever possible. They work very efficiently.

[Peru]

I have never had a problem with an MP3 from Audacity.

The mp3s I had trouble with were not from Audacity. I did convert them to wavs in Audacity and they worked fine.

I doubt that is was a computer issue. It was on a fast system (i7 hex core overclocked to 3.8, 12G RAM, 2x1TB raid 0 Media and Projects, 2 x 1TB raid 0 Export and Cache, 1TB System and Apps.)